Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 13, 2007
Someone once stated: “I really cannot give you the formula for success. But I can give you the formula for failure. It’s
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 13, 2007
British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith once spent a weekend at the Waddesdon estate of the 19th-century Rothschild family. One day, as Asquith was being waited on at teatime by the butler, the following conversation ensued:
“Tea, coffee, or a peach from off the wall, sir?”
“Tea, please,” answered
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Contributed by Donnie Martin on Sep 13, 2007
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New Every Morning
Yea, “new every morning,” though we may awake,
Our hearts with old sorrow beginning to ache;
With old work unfinished when night stayed our hand
With new duties waiting, unknown and unplanned;
With old care still pressing, to fret and to vex,
With new problems rising, our minds
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Contributed by Gene Gregory on Sep 11, 2007
Billie Hanks once said, “You will win no more people & exert no more influence for the Savior
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
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Several years ago when it was safer to do this, a man picked up a hitchhiking serviceman in Florida. When the young sailor got in the car, he said, "Forgive me. I’m hungover. I’ve got a bad headache. I’ve been drinking all week." He began to brag about his sexual escapades over the weekend, and the
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
Now contrast that with one the story of another man. He owned a liquor store. One day, the liquor store owner met the Jesus. He poured all of his inventory down the drain. That’s called disposing of your liquid assets. And he owed a lot of money on some of that. He worked for along time paying off
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
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I heard about a rabbit and a snake meeting in the forest. The rabbit said, "We don’t know how we look. Why don’t we describe each other to the other so we’ll know how we look?" The snake said, "Good idea. You’ve got a pink nose, long ears, and a fluffy little tail." The rabbit liked that, and he
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
I read recently about a young boy who had been alienated from his family and found himself homeless. Can you imagine what that’s like? No home. No place to go. No money. Nothing. He was homeless and on the street.
He said, "I was terrified. I spent the first night in the doorway of a building,
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
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There was a little boy who was asked by his father if he would move a fairly large stone in the backyard. The boy said, "Yes, I’ll do it. I’ll try."
He tried very hard, but he couldn’t budge the stone. The father said, "Son, give it all you’ve got." He tried again and strained very hard. The
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
George Eliot wrote a book about Adam Bede. Adam was a stalwart carpenter, a solid man, and he was in love with a woman who was pretty, vain, and superficial. There comes into their lives an author who is a wealthy playboy. He took advantage of this woman, and the rest of the story is about her
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
In 1962, Billy Graham was in crusade in Seattle. One night, he awoke from a sound sleep with a deep burden to pray for actress Marilyn Monroe. That burden never left him for several days. He told his associates, and they tried to get in touch with her through her agent. They said, "Mr. Graham wants
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 11, 2007
In his excellent book on a Christian’s place in tomorrow’s world, Wild Hope, Tom Sine urges Christians to take change seriously. He writes, “If we don’t begin in our lives, professions, and churches to anticipate both the new challenges and the new opportunities the twenty-first century brings us,
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Contributed by Simon Mattholie on Sep 10, 2007
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We were in Spain a few weeks ago and we went to a water park to keep the kids happy. Now I don’t mind swimming, but I don’t do heights – really. Anyway, Dom my youngest decides that he and I are going to go down some of the water shoots - there was one called the black hole, and actually it was
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I pledged Phi Beta Sigma in college. Everyone has stories to tell of when they were pledging. But the one thing we could be sure of whenever we had a set was that we would be locked up - arm in arm - unified, joined, refusing to let anybody else separate us. Why
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I remember a friend I had in college whom I took a road trip from VA Tech to Boston with. Along the way we stopped in DC to have dinner at a friend’s restaurant. The food was really good, the restaurant was good, the only problem was that I didn’t understand ANYTHING. You see, he was Korean, his 2
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A little boy wanted to meet God.He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips and a six-pack of root beer and started his journey. When he had gone about three blocks,he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park, just staring at some
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Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Sep 9, 2007
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To him who is thirsty I will give them without cost...... when our family go out to restaurants or a cafe or pub lunch, Danielle will often ask me to go and get some water, but she doesn’t mean bottled water she means get some tap water because its free. I always feel embarrassed asking for
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 7, 2007
One time, the comic strip Kudzu featured this country-style preacher. He was praying to God, and he said, "Oh Lord, You know I don’t ever ask for much, but, Lord, I pray that You would grant me just this one thing ... dignity. That’s all I ask, Lord." In the next frame, there was a lightening bolt
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Contributed by Bob Joyce on Sep 6, 2007
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Tony Campolo is a Baptist professor and preacher who has the gall to insist that we look at things, even sacred cows, from a truly Christian perspective. He’s a compelling motivational speaker who speaks to many kinds of audiences. He once was invited to speak at a sales conference sponsored by a
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